Pieter Brueghel the Younger, copy after - The Massacre of the Innocents - image-1

Lot 8 Dα

Pieter Brueghel the Younger, copy after - The Massacre of the Innocents

Auction 1164 - overview Cologne
21.11.2020, 12:00 - Paintings 15th to 19th Century
Estimate: 8.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 28.750 € (incl. premium)

Pieter Brueghel the Younger, copy after

The Massacre of the Innocents

Oil on panel (parquetted). 72 x 106.5 cm.
Signed lower right: Bruegel.

Over 20 versions of this composition by Pieter Brueghel the Younger exist, listed by Klaus Ertz in the catalogue raisoné (K. Ertz: Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere. Die Gemälde mit kritischen Œvrekatalog, vol. I, pp. 354 - 358), most of which are the works of studio assistants or followers. The present painting may be the one sold at Lepke, Berlin, in 1929 and listed by Ertz as no. F309 (p.353).

Provenance

German private ownership.